Wild Life! by Re:wild & Syd Robinson

Author:Re:wild & Syd Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2021-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

A Plummeting Population

Illegal hunting is still a serious threat to the bats on all the Mariana Islands, but on Guam the biggest threat is the invasive Brown Tree Snake—which eats the bats’ babies.

Habitat destruction from human development also affects the bats, but typhoons cause the biggest drop in numbers when they pass near or over the islands. For instance, between three thousand and four thousand bats lived in Rota in 2015. When a typhoon passed through that year, their numbers were cut in half. And just when the Mariana Fruit Bat’s population started to grow again, another typhoon hit Rota in 2018 and set them back once again.

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